Thanks to Dave Young for the tip. Kodak recently put together a tour of the role pictures will have in our lives in the future. Facinating to think how Kodak views their past role of sharing and protecting photos evolving into the future. Flash Video (click skip, then on the tour sign)
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Kodak’s on the Role of Pictures
Thanks to Dave Young for the tip. Kodak recently put together a tour of the role pictures will have in our lives in the future. Facinating to think how Kodak views their past role of sharing and protecting photos evolving into the future. Flash Video (click skip, then on the tour sign)
Yahoo’s Shoposphere
Yahoo! launched a new feature on its Shopping site Monday night similar to eBay’s Reviews & Guides and Amazon’s Listmania which allows their shopping community to share products with other shoppers. Called the Shoposphere it shoppers build lists on any topic for others to see or just themselves. I think these shopping tools are a…
Shoppers don’t convert on the first visit
This just in from SearchEngineGuide… Yahoo! and Compete, Inc. released a new study last week that aimed to track Internet search and transaction activity as it relates to the sales of retail apparel online. While the study was specific to apparel purchases, there are some interesting bits of take-away that could be handy for all…
BMW for Sale
Last night I tried out the latest eBay had to offer in selling cars. Was impressed by a few things but seriously disappointed elsewhere. The new listing process my friend Micah designed remembered my listing from a week ago that I didn’t even save—very cool a big timesaver. But I spent over 2 hours trying…
Handling bad queries
I was discussing eBay search with a friend of mine that I hadn’t seen in a while and he brought up that he was impressed with a number of the changes we’d made over the past year. Flattered, I probed a bit further to find that it was how eBay handled bad queries that he…
Learning about Bain & Company…
This morning I’m preparing for my marketing class on Saturday and decided I’d look into eBay’s new Marketplace president, John Donahoe’s background. So I started with Bain & Company where he was their Worldwide Managing Director. Here are some articles that jumped out at me… The decision driven organization (Paul Rogers, Bain & Company)Several points…
Yahoo! Maps, Flash, AJAX, & APIs
LukeW covered the launch of Yahoo! Maps Flash-based UI today. I was a bit surprised to see this done in Flash as nearly everything compelling that’s been released this year was based on AJAX. However Y! shows that there is still a place for Flash in this demo. Slick zooming with the scrollwheel and the…
Yahoo! Maps, Flash, AJAX, & APIs
LukeW covered the launch of Yahoo! Maps Flash-based UI today. I was a bit surprised to see this done in Flash as nearly everything compelling that’s been released this year was based on AJAX. However Y! shows that there is still a place for Flash in this demo. Slick zooming with the scrollwheel and the…
AOL Search’s new “saved searches” feature
I’ve been thinking alot lately about how people keep track of past things they’ve found online and was pleased to see AOL’s new saved searches feature today. I think it is important that any eCommerce site or search engine integrate this functionality deeply into the user experience. On mouseover a pair of scissors appears and…